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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-348: ------------------------------------------- I suggest to close this issue. The problem seemed to be some missing jars. > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/fontbox/afm/AFMParser > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-348 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-348 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Text extraction > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > > [Issue from SourceForge] > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1915332&group_id=78314&atid=552832 > Hi all. > Been trying to get the PDFTextStripper to work with simple PDF files but I > usually get two results with my code: > 1.) I get nothing at all. > 2.) I get an error. Part of which says "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/fontbox/afm/AFMParser". > Here is a sample of my code: > public String getPDF(String strDirectory, String strFilename) { > String strContents = ""; > File PDFDoc = new File(strDirectory + "\\" + strFilename); > try { > FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(PDFDoc); > strContents = strFilename + " was found.<br><br>"; > try { > PDDocument pdDoc = null; > PDFParser parseDoc = new PDFParser(fis); > parseDoc.parse(); > pdDoc = parseDoc.getPDDocument(); > pdDoc.getNumberOfPages(); > try { > PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); > strContents = stripper.getText(pdDoc); > } catch(IOException e) { > return "Error encountered while stripping text: " + > e.getMessage(); > } > return "strContents: " + strContents; > } catch(IOException e) { > return "Error encountered while trying to parse PDF document: " > + e.getMessage(); > } > } catch(FileNotFoundException e) { > return "Error encountered while trying to do a FileInputStream: " > + e.getMessage(); > } > } > Can anybody here please tell me what I am doing wrong? > Thanks! > [Comment on SourceForge] > Date: 2008-04-06 15:56 > Sender: david_keller > Logged In: YES > user_id=2056038 > Originator: NO > I had the same pb, and I put in my lib directory this 2 jar > FontBox-0.1.0.jar and checkstyle-all-4.2.jar. > And know it's work > [Comment on SourceForge] > Date: 2008-04-10 10:31 > Sender: ocm-zeeman > Logged In: YES > user_id=684413 > Originator: NO > Downloading fontbox from http://www.fontbox.org ?! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.